Raptor rescue

Unhurried in flight and with a sideline in stolen goods, the handsome red kite is the gentleman thief of the raptor world

Threatened with extinction in the 1960s, the mighty peregrine–with its astonishing speed and super strength–has staged such a remarkable comeback that its now more successful than it was in the Middle Ages

Letter of the week As old as ...

B ecause it’s the school summer holidays, it’s ...

“No gate is too big” for this veteran hunt horse, who is king of the yard and “does what he wants to” – as long as it doesn’t involve pigs

An injured fox helped turn a childhood dream into reality for Ana Lapaz-Mendez